Mandate talk was retarded 12 years ago and it’s still retarded. He won, that’s a mandate. Of course our various lower level winners also have a mandate. All winners have a mandate, that’s the nature of winning.

12 posted on 12/09/2012 4:52:57 PM PST by discostu
(Not a part of anyone's well oiled machine.)

I do have to ask, in the name of intellectual honesty... if the numbers had been exactly reversed, how many on our side would be claiming a “landslide” and mandate?

It was a close election. The other side won. How we deal with now determines what happens in 2016.

I mean I have no love for Obama, but the talking heads on Fox were predicting a “landslide” for our side that was in the end smaller than the electoral returns for theirs.... I can’t abide the whining, teams that win take each loss, don’t do this stupid denial act ‘They Stole it... whaaa whaaa whaaa, which we mocked in 2000 and 2004’ and figure out what to do differently next time.

When 60 million people vote against you and everything you stand for, and only 3 million more people vote for you than against you, mostly because you are offering or giving them free stuff, there is no mandate, there is a country divided in half.

24 posted on 12/10/2012 8:09:50 AM PST by JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)